"The part I'm looking forward to most is the part where it energized our campaign, and her selection put us ahead in the polls," McCain said. "The part I'm looking forward to the least thing is some of the disagreements that took place within the campaign."

Still, McCain said that he expects Palin to play a "significant role" in the Republican Party and is "proud of her."

UPDATE: NewsBusters asks today if the mainstream media will ignore Palin's book like this year's best-sellers from Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin and Mark Levin (which sold over 1 million copies in 2009 without a NY Times or Washington Post review). I say no.

UPDATE 2: Two interviews later: Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg asks Lindsey Graham how he expects to be portrayed in Palin's book. Wonder if John King will ask the same thing when he chats with Steve Schmidt tomorrow.

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LOL. I think John McCain had enough of Sarah Palin last year, can't blame the man even LEVI jumped ship.
Seems like everyone that REALLY knows Sarah likes to keep her at a safe distance. Like thousands of miles away.

I voted for Sarah Palin, despite John McCain. McCain could not articulate his health-care plan when he was questioned about it. Also, he promised to "name-names" when taxpayers money was being squandered by congress through earmarks. Obama signed off on more than 9000 earmarks - why doesn't McCain name the culprits? He's just on cruise-control now and the Senate is just a big old fraternal organization for these guys.

Ignore, hardly. They can't wait to trash Sarah again, but it won't make any difference. She is the real deal and people know it.
People will buy the book in quantity because they know they will find it entertaining and inspiring.

I also voted for Sarah Palin in spite of John McCain. I also thought then and now that our so-called (and anything but) MSM was going to put Obama in the WH at all cost so it really didn't. Yeah, they'll "review' her book if only to give them another reason ... not that they need one .... to trash her and her family.

"NewsBusters asks today if the mainstream media will ignore Palin's book like this year's best-sellers from Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin and Mark Levin (which sold over 1 million copies in 2009 without a NY Times or Washington Post review). I say no."
They'll either ignore it, or attack it. Anyone want to bet money on that?

"From his new book "Republican Gomorrah", Max Blumenthal examines the radical beliefs about witchcraft and the "serpent seed" that propelled Sarah Palin into politics.

Excerpts:

"Oh father, use her to turn this nation around," Bishop Muthee shouted, his left palm on Sarah Palin's head, "so that the curse can be broken."

To those who knew Palin, she was no ordinary hockey mom, but rather an evangelical foot soldier who spearheaded the (conservative Christian) movement's takeover of local government. Her power base was the Wasilla Assembly of God, a Pentecostal mega-church where she was baptized and spent over 20 years as a member.

Wasilla Assembly of God was in thrall to a radical Pentecostal trend once denounced by church authorities as heresy. Called the Third Wave, it was rooted in an explicitly anti-intellectual creation myth. According to the Third Wave's founding father, William Branham, a rural Canadian preacher, Satan had sex with Eve and gave birth to Cain--the so-called "Serpent Seed." "Through Cain came all the smart, educated people down to the antediluvian flood--the intellectuals, bible colleges," Branham wrote. "They know all their creeds but know nothing about God."

"While Palin barnstormed the country as a vice-presidential candidate in late September, Muthee returned to the Mat-Su Valley to address a group from the Wasilla Assembly of God. The Kenyan preacher explained the current relevance of Queen Esther, a Jewish beauty queen who married the king of Assyria and then used her seductive wiles to persuade him to save her people from the evil Haman. The resonance was clear: Palin, the former beauty pageant contestant who had chosen Esther as her biblical role model when she first entered politics, would topple the secular tyrants to lead her people, the true Christians, into the kingdom.

Building toward his climax, Muthee summoned the flock to spiritual warfare, invoking Branham's "serpent seed" doctrine. "How do you kill a python?" Muthee asked an adolescent boy in the front row. "Step on its neck!" the boy responded almost instantly. "Right," Muthee replied. "You have to step on the necks of the pythons to crush the enemy." Then Muthee drew the worshippers to their feet for a prayer that included speaking in tongues:

"We come against that python spirit. We come against that spirit of
witchcraft as the body of Christ. Right now in the name of Jesus!
Ooooh-raba-saka-ta-la. Come on, pray, pray! Raba-sandalalala-
bebebebekalabebe. Shanda-la-bebebeka-lelebebe. . . . That's why
we come against all forms of witchcraft. All the python spirits that
are released against the body of Christ . . . and bring this nation into
the Kingdom."

The NYT will ignore it as long as it possibly can, then assign some Palin hater, who probably did nothing but skim the book, and read anti-Palin tirades at the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, etc., to write the review. The NYT completely missed the ACORN and Van Jones scandals, and is no longer an actual newspaper, just a DNC rag.

I believe the mainstream media WILL ignore Palin's book, and it will NOT be reviewed in the NY times or other leftwing papers.
The left is literally insane with hatred for her. The various parts of the democrat coaltion ALL hate her so much they become incoherent when they talk about her. They call her "trailer trash", "redneck racist", "ignorant, inbred, bible-thumping, wolf shooting" etc.
The democrat party today is run by the white-hating "people of color", illegal aliens, homosexual activists, militant atheists, animal rights crazies, environmental terrorists from earth first, and committed white comunists and one world socialists. She represents normal America, and they hate her guts because of that.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.

HATE TRIUMPHANT! There seems no way to reason with the lunatic right. Oppose President Obama, sure, but cut out the crazy nonsense attacking everybody to the left of Sarah Palin and her witch-haunted religion. I'll read Palin's book, but shall we bet she won't? Unless she's learned to write during the last month ot two, you betcha.

As a moderate republican I am disgusted that many on the right truly believe Palin can somehow help the GOP regain majority status. Do we really need to embrace someone - no matter how shallow or divisive they be - simply because they irritate the left?

A couple of points. Wonder if Katie Couric will get the first copy of the book when it becomes available. Second, what has Steve Schmidt done for the Republican party lately but make it even more out of touch and irrelevant.